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Curious dinosaur eggs discovered; element 72 named

A team explores insights about Victorian life and who the woman might have been.

The impact of geomagnetically induced currents on the electric grid and internet infrastructure is well known. Its impact on trains? Less so.

An international team of scientists has documented the largest solar storm to have ever struck the Earth, hidden inside the trunks of ancient trees. Such a massive storm today on the scale of the newly discovered one would cause total disruptions to global technology and infrastructure, from power transformers to satellites, but better understanding how […]

If this solar event happened today, it would cause havoc to modern technology.

Most of the discussion of AI today focuses on 1:1 interactions, but we aren't talking as much about how AI is going to change organizations

The Civil War general's reputation was shaped by partisan politics, editorial whims and his own personal failings

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A powerful coronal mass ejection could crash electricity transmission and bring down the Internet if directed at Earth, so it is just as well this one was travelling the other way.

Space-age technologies have made fundamental changes to the way we live our lives. Avionics allow us to fly to other continents on almost a moment's notice. GNSS services enable us to navigate our cars on roads we've never driven before without a paper map. And some form of radio has become the backbone of both our entertainment and communication networks.

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The terminal is the result of its history, from the telegram to our terminal emulators. What is the difference with a console? The shell?

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

From totality to tremendous light shows, our sun put on a shining performance.

The sunspot is so large that it can be viewed with eclipse glasses, if you've still got those lying around

The Carrington Event of 1859 was a massive geomagnetic storm triggered by an active sun. People saw auroras at low latitudes bright enough to read by. The post What was the Carrington Event, and why does it matter? first appeared on EarthSky.

The TeleAbsence project from the MIT Media Lab blends the real and virtual worlds to probe the way we process feelings of belonging, love, and loss. Originally inspired by bereavement, the project has evolved and now addresses other forms of loss and emotional distance.

Keeper David Rooney shares the story of Ruth Belville, the 'Greenwich Time Lady'.